Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,205 5,780 7,241
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.99% 23.21% 19.18%
As % of the General category 34.68% 36.09% 33.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,235 3,869 5,031
10th Percentile £358 £350 £363
25th Percentile £447 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £588
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -5.53% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 106 247
10th Percentile £15.38 £17.80 £12.83
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.33 £15.17
Median hourly rate £35.27 £40.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.39% +43.75% +0.07%
75th Percentile £54.30 £65.19 £38.12
90th Percentile £86.50 £77.95 £55.50
UK median hourly rate £35.53 £39.06 £27.00
% change year-on-year -9.03% +44.65% -6.86%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 23,658 16,017 21,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.76% 64.32% 57.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,411 10,325 13,753
10th Percentile £313 £282 £285
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -2.62% -2.91%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,651 774 1,850
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.38 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.93 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.00 £28.18 £31.97
Median % change year-on-year +17.10% -11.85% +6.57%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £53.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £67.83
UK median hourly rate £32.36 £28.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +15.58% -8.20% -0.13%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 20 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 4,913 £575 -4.17% 1,964
North of England +2 1,284 £500 +7.53% 639
South East -1 694 £500 -4.76% 904
North West +4 680 £466 +3.44% 352
Midlands 0 639 £500 +11.11% 366
Yorkshire 0 558 £525 +10.53% 223
West Midlands +1 465 £502 +0.30% 218
South West -3 379 £525 - 289
East of England +1 193 £516 -10.22% 181
East Midlands -1 167 £473 +11.18% 146
North East -17 47 £500 +13.64% 74
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 291 (3.55%) Confluence
2 202 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 81 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 63 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 46 (0.56%) Apache
5 46 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 27 (0.33%) SAS
7 26 (0.32%) CMS
8 21 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
9 15 (0.18%) CICS
10 12 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 12 (0.15%) Appian
10 12 (0.15%) Ethereum
10 12 (0.15%) IIS
11 11 (0.13%) Camunda
11 11 (0.13%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.073%) Hyperledger
12 6 (0.073%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (0.061%) TPMS
13 5 (0.061%) WebLogic
Applications
1 453 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 178 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 155 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 148 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
5 98 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 55 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
7 36 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.061%) Sketch
9 4 (0.049%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.049%) Trello
10 3 (0.037%) Adobe Illustrator
10 3 (0.037%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.037%) Notion
10 3 (0.037%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.024%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.024%) InVision
12 1 (0.012%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.012%) Final Cut Pro
12 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.012%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 294 (3.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 108 (1.32%) NetSuite
3 94 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
4 79 (0.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 79 (0.96%) Oracle Receivables
5 69 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
6 41 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
7 40 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
8 39 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
9 38 (0.46%) Aladdin
10 35 (0.43%) SAP FI
11 32 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
12 30 (0.37%) SAP CO
13 28 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
14 27 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
15 26 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
16 23 (0.28%) SAP BRIM
17 22 (0.27%) SAP ERP
18 21 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
19 19 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,317 (16.05%) Azure
2 951 (11.59%) AWS
3 567 (6.91%) Power Platform
4 415 (5.06%) GCP
5 286 (3.49%) SaaS
6 282 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
7 256 (3.12%) Microsoft 365
8 211 (2.57%) GitHub
9 188 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
10 164 (2.00%) Snowflake
11 159 (1.94%) Entra ID
12 137 (1.67%) Serverless
13 108 (1.32%) Amazon S3
14 100 (1.22%) Power Automate
15 97 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
16 95 (1.16%) OCI
17 86 (1.05%) dbt
18 85 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
19 79 (0.96%) OpenShift
20 78 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 147 (1.79%) Firewall
2 125 (1.52%) Network Security
3 68 (0.83%) VPN
4 66 (0.80%) DNS
5 57 (0.69%) WAN
6 55 (0.67%) TCP/IP
7 38 (0.46%) BGP
8 32 (0.39%) HTTP
8 32 (0.39%) LAN
8 32 (0.39%) SSL
9 27 (0.33%) DHCP
10 26 (0.32%) OSPF
11 25 (0.30%) Multicast
12 23 (0.28%) MPLS
13 22 (0.27%) SD-WAN
14 21 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
15 19 (0.23%) VSAN
16 18 (0.22%) Internet
17 17 (0.21%) VLAN
18 16 (0.20%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 489 (5.96%) Power BI
2 237 (2.89%) SQL Server
3 220 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
4 162 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
5 160 (1.95%) Metadata
6 143 (1.74%) Relational Database
7 127 (1.55%) Tableau
8 122 (1.49%) Data Lake
9 88 (1.07%) NoSQL
10 71 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
11 69 (0.84%) Big Data
12 61 (0.74%) Oracle Database
13 58 (0.71%) BigQuery
14 49 (0.60%) MongoDB
15 47 (0.57%) Power Query
16 44 (0.54%) Delta Lake
16 44 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 43 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
18 38 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
19 36 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 602 (7.34%) JIRA
2 201 (2.45%) Git
3 149 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 90 (1.10%) GitLab
5 55 (0.67%) JUnit
6 45 (0.55%) Cucumber
7 34 (0.41%) Selenium
8 28 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 26 (0.32%) Postman
10 25 (0.30%) MLflow
10 25 (0.30%) Visual Studio
11 23 (0.28%) SonarQube
12 21 (0.26%) ERwin
13 20 (0.24%) REST Assured
14 19 (0.23%) Maven
15 17 (0.21%) Zephyr
16 15 (0.18%) TeamCity
17 14 (0.17%) Bitbucket
17 14 (0.17%) Gradle
17 14 (0.17%) Hudson
General
1 2,388 (29.10%) Social Skills
2 1,546 (18.84%) Banking
3 1,071 (13.05%) Analytical Skills
4 453 (5.52%) Public Sector
5 363 (4.42%) Legal
6 328 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 319 (3.89%) Investment Banking
8 307 (3.74%) Front Office
9 272 (3.32%) Retail
10 269 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
11 200 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
12 198 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
13 159 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 141 (1.72%) Local Government
15 134 (1.63%) Manufacturing
16 131 (1.60%) General Ledger
17 127 (1.55%) Billing
18 126 (1.54%) Law
19 120 (1.46%) Marketing
19 120 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,185 (14.44%) Analyst
2 922 (11.24%) Senior
3 869 (10.59%) Lead
4 841 (10.25%) Developer
5 788 (9.60%) Architect
6 631 (7.69%) Project Manager
7 592 (7.22%) Business Analyst
8 526 (6.41%) Consultant
9 317 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
10 287 (3.50%) Data Engineer
11 209 (2.55%) Senior Manager
12 192 (2.34%) Financial Analyst
13 175 (2.13%) Data Analyst
14 170 (2.07%) Accountant
15 169 (2.06%) Finance Manager
15 169 (2.06%) Java Developer
16 164 (2.00%) Software Engineer
17 158 (1.93%) IT Manager
17 158 (1.93%) Senior Developer
18 154 (1.88%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (3.06%) REST
2 248 (3.02%) .NET
3 244 (2.97%) React
4 232 (2.83%) Kafka
5 188 (2.29%) Oracle Fusion
6 175 (2.13%) Middleware
7 152 (1.85%) Spring
8 149 (1.82%) Spring Boot
9 121 (1.47%) RESTful
10 110 (1.34%) Redux
11 102 (1.24%) Node.js
11 102 (1.24%) PySpark
12 86 (1.05%) AngularJS
13 82 (1.00%) JSON
14 75 (0.91%) OAuth
15 71 (0.87%) XML
16 61 (0.74%) CSS
17 58 (0.71%) Pandas
18 56 (0.68%) OpenID
19 55 (0.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 379 (4.62%) Onboarding
2 349 (4.25%) Product Ownership
3 345 (4.20%) Cloud Native
4 225 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
5 203 (2.47%) Management Information System
6 185 (2.25%) Data Structures
7 162 (1.97%) Fixed Income
8 157 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 153 (1.86%) Derivative
10 146 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
11 142 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
12 137 (1.67%) Data Centre
13 118 (1.44%) Equities
14 115 (1.40%) Virtual Team
15 109 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
16 99 (1.21%) AI Agents
17 98 (1.19%) Public Cloud
18 94 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
19 87 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
20 83 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 283 (3.45%) Windows
2 254 (3.10%) Linux
3 131 (1.60%) Unix
4 62 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 37 (0.45%) Solaris
6 36 (0.44%) Windows 10
7 33 (0.40%) Apple iOS
8 31 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 28 (0.34%) Android
9 28 (0.34%) zOS
10 20 (0.24%) Mac OS
11 17 (0.21%) AIX
12 7 (0.085%) Oracle Linux
12 7 (0.085%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.073%) VMS
14 5 (0.061%) HPUX
14 5 (0.061%) SUSE
14 5 (0.061%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.049%) MVS
16 3 (0.037%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,747 (21.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,691 (20.61%) Agile
3 1,149 (14.00%) Migration
4 1,061 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
5 948 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 887 (10.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 886 (10.80%) DevOps
8 860 (10.48%) AI
9 858 (10.46%) CI/CD
10 816 (9.95%) Analytics
10 816 (9.95%) ERP
11 731 (8.91%) Decision-Making
12 723 (8.81%) Project Management
13 690 (8.41%) Roadmaps
14 685 (8.35%) Data Modelling
15 683 (8.32%) Validation
16 629 (7.67%) User Acceptance Testing
17 619 (7.54%) Business Intelligence
18 601 (7.32%) Change Management
19 532 (6.48%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,138 (13.87%) SQL
2 1,015 (12.37%) Python
3 567 (6.91%) Java
4 359 (4.38%) C#
5 242 (2.95%) TypeScript
6 237 (2.89%) JavaScript
7 190 (2.32%) PowerShell
8 80 (0.98%) C++
9 75 (0.91%) Bash
10 73 (0.89%) PL/SQL
11 68 (0.83%) T-SQL
12 67 (0.82%) Go
13 55 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 53 (0.65%) Shell Script
15 44 (0.54%) Scala
16 43 (0.52%) VBA
17 32 (0.39%) Bicep
18 30 (0.37%) Apex Code
19 29 (0.35%) Rust
20 28 (0.34%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 669 (8.15%) Degree
2 636 (7.75%) Security Cleared
3 454 (5.53%) SC Cleared
4 211 (2.57%) ACCA
5 209 (2.55%) PMP
6 188 (2.29%) CIMA
7 176 (2.15%) PMI Certification
8 160 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 140 (1.71%) CISSP
10 129 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 89 (1.08%) DV Cleared
12 81 (0.99%) Master's Degree
13 80 (0.98%) CISM
14 75 (0.91%) Azure Certification
15 61 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
16 46 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
17 44 (0.54%) AWS Certification
18 38 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 34 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 32 (0.39%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 509 (6.20%) Data Quality
2 360 (4.39%) QA
3 307 (3.74%) PMO
4 285 (3.47%) GDPR
5 159 (1.94%) NIST
6 129 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 112 (1.37%) IFRS
8 96 (1.17%) SLA
9 88 (1.07%) GRC
10 87 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 77 (0.94%) Accessibility
12 62 (0.76%) PCI DSS
13 61 (0.74%) GAAP
14 55 (0.67%) ISO 20022
15 36 (0.44%) NCSC
16 35 (0.43%) PSD2
16 35 (0.43%) SEPA
17 34 (0.41%) Solvency II
18 30 (0.37%) IFRS 17
19 27 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 263 (3.21%) Docker
2 169 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 51 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (0.34%) vSphere
5 21 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.15%) RACF
9 10 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 10 (0.12%) NFS
10 6 (0.073%) GPFS
10 6 (0.073%) KVM
11 5 (0.061%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.037%) GridGain
13 3 (0.037%) SRDF
14 2 (0.024%) ACF2
14 2 (0.024%) HDFS
14 2 (0.024%) IAG
Systems Management
1 370 (4.51%) Kubernetes
2 242 (2.95%) Terraform
3 132 (1.61%) Ansible
4 75 (0.91%) Grafana
5 67 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 61 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 48 (0.59%) SCCM
8 38 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
9 25 (0.30%) Control-M
10 19 (0.23%) FortiGate
11 18 (0.22%) vRealize
12 16 (0.20%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 14 (0.17%) Nessus
14 13 (0.16%) AirWatch
15 12 (0.15%) Argo
15 12 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
16 11 (0.13%) CASB
16 11 (0.13%) Puppet
17 10 (0.12%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 1,056 (12.87%) Microsoft
2 673 (8.20%) Oracle
3 650 (7.92%) SAP
4 291 (3.55%) ServiceNow
5 251 (3.06%) Databricks
6 205 (2.50%) Salesforce
7 183 (2.23%) Google
8 122 (1.49%) Workday
9 109 (1.33%) VMware
10 106 (1.29%) Splunk
11 96 (1.17%) Cisco
12 95 (1.16%) IBM
13 91 (1.11%) CyberArk
14 63 (0.77%) Citrix
15 62 (0.76%) OpenAI
16 54 (0.66%) Sage
17 53 (0.65%) Bloomberg
18 52 (0.63%) Ariba
19 48 (0.59%) Informatica
20 46 (0.56%) Murex